“We have amenities on site to attract more than the causal gamer - it’s a destination. Mount Airy spokeswoman Wendy Wilson said the casino is “more of a destination resort and casino” than the Sands, which July 1 became Wild Creek casino resort. With many amenities similar to Sands Bethlehem Event Center, and seeking to book similar music acts and even some of the same clientele from New York and Philadelphia, will Mount Airy be competition for that venue? He says the offerings “will be across the board - all types of entertainment that you find across the region.” Whatever makes sense for the rest of the region.” By that, he means the event center will look to carve out an audience rather than duplicate the offerings of Sherman Theater or Scranton’s The Pavilion at Montage.įriday, a concert by chart-topping jazz-rocker Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers officially opens a new Mount Airy ballroom and event center that officials say will be the largest casino entertainment venue in northeastern Pennsylvaniaīerkowitz says he wouldn’t be surprised if the event center offers 15 to 20 events through the end of 2019.

Jordan says the number of shows to be presented at the event center “is a work in progress. Seating will be folding stadium seats - “full-blown theatre chairs with arm rests and seat cushions,” Berkowitz says. For concerts, Berkowitz says, a full stage will be added, with state-of-the-art audio and visual equipment and artistic lighting. That, Berkowitz says, will let the event center be “conference space by day, a theater by night.”īecause it’s a multi-purpose facility, the event center is a vast, open, with a carpeted floor. It even can have different events at the same time. free-flowing and open space,” Berkowitz says.Ī feature the new Mount Airy space has that the Sands does not is that it can be partitioned into as many as six separate rooms. “It’s a phenomenal space: a pre-function area with a bar atmosphere,” Jordan says.

Mount Airy’s event center has an adjacent 4,000-square-foot pre-concert space.

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